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Your backup is encrypted https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
by coolspot 7y ago
Your backup is encrypted https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
- centimeter 7y agoThat chart from Apple is quite misleading. Apple abandoned full strong encryption for iCloud data, apparently due to pressure from the US Government. https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/21/apple-reportedly-abandoned-end-to-end-icloud/ https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/21/apple-reportedly-abandoned-en... Only the things under "End-to-end encrypted data" are actually encrypted in a meaningful way - everything else just sits on servers that use disk encryption, but that fails to defend from 99% of realistic attack scenarios. A lot of content - including photos (which I used to use to take pictures of sensitive personal data, like ID cards) - is not meaningfully encrypted. Thankfully, Safari tab data is actually encrypted as of iOS 13. While Apple has done a good job of protecting user privacy compared to the alternatives, they still have a lot of work to do before we can accurately say things like "iCloud backups are encrypted".